Astronaut Colonists, led by Commander Qol, left Earth to colonize the Asteroid Belt with a group of drone miners to help them find the precious minerals they would need to survive. One day, on the Asteroid Colony known as 7-9J, something went wrong with the drone's AI, and they attacked their masters' base . . .

The drone miners and their mecha.

The Astronaut Colonists and The Dune Hound.

The drones move into position.

The mecha fires off two missiles into the Astronauts' trench to test their defenses.

While one of the Astronauts jumps out of the way, another is not so lucky.

A medic runs over to the unfortunate Astronaut and tries to revive him.

He ends up removing the Astronaut's helmet; instantly killing him.

One of the Astronauts fires a rocket at a drone.

But the drone is able to the rocket in midair.

This causes the explosion to hit both the Astronaut and the drone.

Meanwhile, Commander Qol opens the hanger bay doors.

The Dune Hound flies into the battle.

With the hanger bay doors open, an Astronaut is able to snipe one of the drones.

Finally, Commander Qol and two other Astronauts head toward the battle.

An overall shot of the battle.

More to come . . .

jifel wrote:"Any fool can make something bigger and more dangerous, but it takes an intelligent man to do the opposite."

Arkbrik wrote:Sweet hangar! I must say the drones seem a little outnumbered. That mecha better be dead hard, otherwise it's no fair...

Thanks! The base is actually my Echo Base MOC, but it works great as an asteroid colony too!

As for the drones, well they're supposed to be outnumbered. The point is that even though they are outnumbered, they have shields, heavy armor, can all work as medics, and can all use their staffs as guns. Then there's the mecha who can fire off a payload of twelve missiles whenever it wants to.

Anyway, here's the final part of the battle:

With his one arm, a drone fires an energy blast from his beam staff.

The Astronaut never knew what hit him.

Realizing that the Dune Hound would be in range in moments, the mecha fired off it's last remaining missiles.

And nails the shuttle right in the engines!

"We're going down!"

Ka-boom!

Down but not out, the legless Astronaut puts his jetpack to good use and fires off a missile.

"Massive failure detected."

"New order received. 10, 9, 8."

"Oh what's he gonna' do, count us to death?"

"7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1."

An overall shot of the battle.

Thanks for looking and I hope you enjoyed the battle!

jifel wrote:"Any fool can make something bigger and more dangerous, but it takes an intelligent man to do the opposite."